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 I am almost embarrassed to exhibit how ignorant I am of all the 'new' technology, but this story is too good to ignore. I was walking my daily constitutional in the high desert behind my home and stumbled across this SanDisk, exactly as pictured and, appropriately enough, half buried in the sand. I did not have a clue what it was. I put it in my pocket for further perusal at the house. When I got home, I rinsed the dirt off it in the sink. I did make the connection that the name SanDisk was the same name as the memory card I had for my camera, but this was obviously something different. It was bigger and had a belt clip and no way would it slide into a camera port. I was poking and prodding it like a caveman until I noticed it had a charging port like my phone and a USB port like on my computer.  I started by hooking it up to my phone charger dealy and sure enough it started charging, so the water I cleaned it off with didn't seem to fry it. After the charge I plugged it i
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 More AI generated wisdom. AI generated quotes continue to get better and more insightful as humankind gets dumber and more derivative. I have known a few people where the most interesting thing they produced in life was the splat they made at the end of it. We like to see tragedy in our celebrities too, be it the early demise of a Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, or Kurt Cobain and a thousand others, or the countless pop stars like Britney Spears mentally collapsing in front of us on social media. Something is satisfying about media gods flying too close to the Sun and for us getting to see their wings bursting into flames. It makes being an insignificant loser less painful somehow. We can sit back and say, "See, that is what you get for being rich and famous!" For many an early and tragic death is a wise career move. We don't have to see them get old and become parodies of themselves. They become forever frozen in time at their peak.
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Christ was a 'Johnny-come-lately'. If Jesus was a rock band, he would be 'Journey'.